Tove Ditlevsen quotes
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“my childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would last until I was grown up.”
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“Down in the bottom of my childhood my father stands laughing.”
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“I fear / the place I have / in the memory of others. / They remind me of things / I myself have forgot.”
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“[On her mother:] My relationship with her is close, painful, and skaky, and I always have to keep searching for a sign of love. Everything I do, I do to please her, to make her smile, to ward off her fury. This work is extremely exhausting ...”
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“my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.”
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“Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.”
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“Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.”
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“Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.”
Source : 'The Lotos-Eaters' (1832) Choric Song, st. 1
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“One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.”
Source : Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.85, Penguin
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Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book Three: Being and the Meaning of Life”, p.25, Shambhala Publications
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